Quotes about Fishing

"Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after."
-Henry David Thoreau

"After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later."
-Richard Brautigan

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is."
-Henry David Thoreau

"I was a hunter and he was a fisherman and he got me hooked on fishing."
-David Mauldin

"Nearly seven months after the storms, our fishing communities look as if they were hit by the storms yesterday."
-Harlon Pearce

"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."
-Samuel Johnson

"He was a real expert on fishing in Southwest Florida. He could take you to fish when no one else could."
-Lee Melsek

"Overall, we're looking at fewer days of fishing opportunity on the ocean."
-Phil Anderson

"I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball."
-Martin Milner

"We always ask them why. They were essentially fishing for something that was not in the published photo. But the core of what they wanted was in the published photo."
-Marcus Donner

"In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch."
-Louis Nizer

"That's the reason I'm catching bigger fish. They're on isolated beds, and I'm fishing really slow."
-Luke Clausen

"The tourist economy, the fishing economy, the environment - all of that would go."
-Larry Lack

"I only make movies to finance my fishing'."
-Lee Marvin

"The most vulnerable spot [on a fly rod] is right at the tip. That'll get broken off. It can get broken off in a car door, when you're fishing, [it's] very easy to do."
-Don Corey

"How can you tell which is a real fishing boat and which is not from up in the sky at night?"
-Alan Chan

"We're trying to get (commercial fishermen) out of only fishing 10 days and into quotas, so they can fish whenever they want to."
-Rick Leard

"Tell him it's about fishing."
-Charley Winner

"It takes two seconds. . . . No more fishing in your wallet or purse for credit cards."
-Ryan Ross

"The fishing season will now go from April to March."
-Chuck Gates

"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."
-Don Marquis

"I might go fishing."
-Terry Phillips

"We're still out fishing, looking for a bite."
-Randy Simmons

"I'm the boater in the family so we would go boating and fishing together. He was always an active man. He did travel for business to all 50 states. He was always traveling."
-Gail Gallagher

"I've been fishing ever since I could walk. Me and my dad go out all the time, go fishing. It's just something that I've always been doing."
-A.j. Davis

"Illegal fishing can have a large impact."
-Pam Baker

"We like to go fishing like everyone else."
-Jack Syptak

"This is a fishing expedition by the feds. Until anyone proves otherwise, I'm with Brian and supporting him completely."
-Arthur Cheliotes